Assessment is as essential to family therapy as it is to individual therapy. Although families often present with one person identified as the “problem,” the assessment process will help you better understand family roles and determine whether the identified problem client is in fact the root of the family’s issues. As you examine the Hernandez Family: Sessions 1-6 videos in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat the client family.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Assess client families presenting for psychotherapy

To prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources and reflect on the insights they provide on family assessment.
• View the Hernandez Family: Sessions 1-6 videos, and consider how you might assess the family in the case study.

Note: For guidance on writing a comprehensive client assessment, refer to pages 137–142 of Wheeler (2014) in this week’s Learning Resources.

The Assignment

Address in a comprehensive client assessment of the Hernandez family the following:

• Demographic information
• Presenting problem
• History or present illness
• Past psychiatric history
• Medical history
• Substance use history
• Developmental history
• Family psychiatric history
• Psychosocial history
• History of abuse and/or trauma
• Review of systems
• Physical assessment
• Mental status exam
• Differential diagnosis
• Case formulation
• Treatment plan

Note: Any item you are unable to address from the video should be marked “needs to be added to” as you would in an actual comprehensive client assessment

After watching the YouTube video Missed Opportunities for Interprofessional Practice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey557BaRe14

Answer all these questions bellow; 

• Identify one example of a communication skill, strategy, and/or factor used by an individual member of the health care team that contributed to effective communication and collaboration.
• Identify one example of a barrier to effective communication and collaboration. 
• Identify one way in which communication could have been improved during this patient conference.
• Where do you see interprofessional collaboration in your practice or school clinical setting? Give an example.
• Be sure to include in your discussion terms you learned from your readings (i.e., communication style, attributes of effective communication, factors that influence communication, therapeutic communication strategies,  etc.) and provide an in text citation and a reference citation for  your text book.  

Required Readings text book:

Blais, K. & Hayes, J. (2016). Professional nursing practice: Concepts & perspectives (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Pearson Education Inc. pgs. 245-262, 264-283.

Topic: Training Improvement to maintain proper use of PPE (Protective personal equipment) in clinical settings. Specially now within current pandemic times.

This is a nursing evidence based, improvement project for end of residency. Content created needs to be of high corporate quality, proper grammar/configuration and meet all the detailed requirements for print and poster board presentation. Attached will be included a powerpoint with all of the instructions to be utilized, font, size, outline and overall setup of project. Review powerpoint thoroughly for all instructions. 100% plagiarism free.

Changes in the nursing practice are addressed as follows:

1. Identify problem

2. Review literature

3.Conduct research

4.Develop an implementation plan

5. Evaluate results

 Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”?

When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely kept the nature of your questions to those with answers that would best help you perform your new role.

Over time and with experience, perhaps you recognized aspects of these processes and procedures that you wanted to question further. This is the realm of clinical inquiry.

Clinical inquiry is the practice of asking questions about clinical practice. To continuously improve patient care, all nurses should consistently use clinical inquiry to question why they are doing something the way they are doing it. Do they know why it is done this way, or is it just because we have always done it this way? Is it a common practice or a best practice?

In this Assignment, you will identify clinical areas of interest and inquiry and practice searching for research in support of maintaining or changing these practices. You will also analyze this research to compare research methodologies employed.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
• Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the clinical issue of interest, search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related to your clinical issue of interest. You should not be using systematic reviews for this assignment, select original research articles.
• Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process of using an unfiltered database to search for peer-reviewed research.
• Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Part 1: An Introduction to Clinical Inquiry

Create a 4- to 5-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

• Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest. This clinical issue will remain the same for the entire course and will be the basis for the development of your PICOT question
• Describe how you used keywords to search on your chosen clinical issue of interest.
• Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
• Provide APA citations of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected.

  Select a nursing theory on Katharine Kolcaba theory of comfort 

Briefly describe the main concept of the theory, including major concepts with definitions and major assumptions. 

In your own words, analyze the theory using Chinn and Kramer’s steps: clarity, simplicity, generality, accessibility, and importance. 

 Include the reference and brief summary of a recent research article published within the past 5 years that includes the use of this theory.

APA format references with in the last past  5 years